Journal-box



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JOURNAL BOX.

No. 373,866. Patented Nov. 29, 18-87.

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JOURNAL BOX.

UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcu.

CHARLES E. TORRANOE, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

JOURNAL-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,866, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filed March 28, 1887. Serial No. 232,707, (No model.)

- a citizen of the United States, residing at Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State-of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Journal-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in journal-boxes, and particularly to that class thereof which support the journals'of rolls and shafts which require perfect alignment; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of said boxes, all as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan view, of a journal-box constructed according to my invention, said figures showing portions of the'frame of a machine in which the box is placed and the end of a journal in the box. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of one of the bearing brasses or blocks. Fig. 4 is a plan view, partly in section. Fig. 5 is atransverse section about on line so :0, Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of detail parts of the box; and Fig. 7 is an end view of one of the parts shown in Fig. 6, all as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, A A indicate parts of the frame of a paper-calender or other machine in which saidjournal-box is used, and B the end of thejournal within the box.

Thejournal-box embodies in its construction a shell, 3, having front and rear flanged ends, 4 and 5, the end 4 being the longer to allow it to engage with the sidesv of the frame A, as in Figs. 1 and 2, and the end 5 being of such length as permits the shell to be passed between said frame parts; and plates f are secured against the rear end of the shell by bolts 2 and have a bearing against the frame parts A, the latter being clamped between said plates f and the said flanged end 4., thereby holding the shell inproper relation to the frame. The said shell 3, as shown in Fig. 5, has a journal-chamber, H, therein, which is surrounded by the shell, excepting at two points, h h, on the upper side, which indicate longitudinal slots, in which is placed waste or other similar material saturated with oil or other lubricating material, which in practice lies directly against the journal B. The cavity .Iat the lower side of the shell is provided also for the reception of said waste and lubrieating material, if desirable. Alongitudinal chamber, 21, is provided at the upper side of the shell over the center of the journal to receive the bearing brass or block F, which has its bearing-fare babbitted or not, as circumstances may require. On each side of said journal-chamber H is provided a longitudinal chamber, 20, to receive a bearing-block, D, and an operating-wedge, E. The adjoining faces of said block D and wedge E are correspondingly inclined, and the latter has a rib, o, thereon, which engages in a groove, w, in the rear side of said bearing-block D, whose bearing-face is babbitted or not, as may be desired. A screw, it, passes through and engages with said wedge E, its rear end being stepped in the rear end, 5, of the shell, and its front end, having acollar,x,thereon,extends through a plate, d, which is secured by screws,as shown, over the front end of the projection c on the front of the shell, which is an elongation of the said chamber 20 beyond the face of the end4, in which said block D and wedge-E are located, said collar having a bearing against the inner side of said plate cl. Thus said screw it is held against endwise movement between plate d and the rear end of the shell when it is turned to operate the wedge E. A setscrew, m, passes through the side of said projection 0 against said collar on the screw 01, and serves to hold said screw from turning after the Wedge E has been adjusted.

When the box is used in machiuessuch as paper-calenders, for instance-on the journals of rolls where the main pressure is downward against the journals of said rolls, the box and the bearing-block F are arranged relativeto the journal, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5; but when said pressure is in the reverse direction the said bearing-block is placed in the socket J at the lower side of thejournal-chamber H.

The bearing-blocks D, having inclined rear sides, together with the wedges E, which move between said blocks and the adjoining inner sides of the shell 3, and the screws a, provide means whereby the roll whose journal is engaged by the blocks D is brought into perfect alignment by working said screws n, and con sequently the wedges E, to move the end of Ioo the roll in either direction laterally to bring it to any desired position.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. Ajournal-box provided with ajournalchamber having in the top thereof a longitudinal chamber to receive a bearing-block and in its sides longitudinal chambers to receive other bearing-blocks, and having longitudinal openings, as 71, between said blockchambers for the reception of lubricating materia1,combined with a bearing-block, substantial] y as described, for the top of the boX, the bearing-blocks D, having inclined rear sides, the wedges E, moving against said blocks D, and screws, as n, engaging with said wedges, substantially as set forth.

2. A journal-box having projections, as c, on its end, the plates d, secured on said projections,and the bearing-blocks D, having their rear sides inclined, as described, and located 20 in chambers on opposite sides of thejournalchamber of the box, combined with the wedges E, located back of said bearing-blocks, and the screws 11, having collars thereon engaging with said plates (1 and having a screw engagement 25 with said Wedges, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES E. TORRANGE.

Vitnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, G. M. CHAMBERLAIN. 

